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Decision Maker: Executive Councillor for Transformation
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Key decision?: No
Is subject to call in?: No
Shared Service Annual reports for 2019/20 for approval by Exec Cllr.
Matter for Decision
The Officer’s report summarised the performance for the 3Cs
ICT, Legal Shared Services and the Greater Cambridge Shared Internal Audit
Service during 2019/20.
Decision of Executive Councillor for Finance and
Resources
i.
Noted the content of the
annual reports.
ii. Noted the requirement
for renewal of the 3Cs services partnership agreement the principle variations
planned
iii. Delegated
authority to the Chief Executive and Strategic Director to finalise and agree
the renewed partnership agreement by September 2020, in consultation with
Executive Councillor, Chair and Spokes.
Reason for the Decision
As set out in the Officer’s report.
Any Alternative Options Considered and Rejected
Not applicable.
Scrutiny Considerations
The Committee received a report from the Strategic Director.
The Committee made the following comments in response to the
report:
i. Asked
if consideration had been given to greater shared scrutiny between the
authorities, such as meeting virtually. There had been recently been a couple
of ICT outages and suggested it could have been resolved more efficiently if
all stake holders had been involved.
ii. Enquired
why the city council’s consumption of legal services was higher than South
Cambridgeshire District Council and Huntingdonshire District Council.
The Strategic Director said the following in response to
Members’ questions:
i.
There had
been a previous proposal for a shared scrutiny committee. However, there were
complications for agreeing the overall decision-making process in line with
each authorities’ constitution and the number of member allocations. Therefore,
it had been decided not to pursue this further.
ii.
The level
and complexity of the services delivered by the city council was currently
greater than the other two local authorities therefore more advice and support
was required from legal services when dealing with issues such as commercial
portfolios.
The Executive Councillor for Finance and Resources made the
following comments:
i.
Echoed the technical difficulties that had
occurred when investigating a greater scrutiny committee; the executive
councillor and scrutiny model used by the City Council was not compatible with
the other local authorities.
ii.
Officers across the local authorities had
regular debate and communication on the business plans and services. This
worked well and there was no need to change.
The Committee unanimously resolved to endorse the
recommendations.
The Executive Councillor approved the recommendations.
Conflicts of Interest Declared by the Executive Councillor
(and any Dispensations Granted)
No conflicts of interest were declared by the Executive
Councillor.
Publication date: 24/09/2020
Date of decision: 06/07/2020